Sentence examples for shocked discovery from inspiring English sources

Once again we see the shocked discovery by Charlie Babbitt, a hustling car-dealer on the skids, that he has an autistic savant brother, Raymond, who stands to inherit their father's fortune, a cool $12m.

The German government has just launched a new TV advertising campaign encouraging people to eat more beef, just days after the shock discovery of its first ever cases of BSE-infected cattle.

Other plays he writes in this period – Othello, All's Well That Ends Well, Timon of Athens – are similarly shadowy and equivocal in tone, perhaps reflecting the tense atmosphere at court following rumbling disputes about the unification of England and Scotland, and the shock discovery of the Gunpowder plot in November 1605.

However shocking a discovery might be, McDonnell noted, "the water soon closes over those revelations and the state just moves on as though nothing has happened.

Officials were shocked by the discovery.

Japan does not approve the import of the grain for either animal or human consumption and its discovery shocked consumers.

Mr. Rosenberg said fund managers were shocked by the discovery of Mr. Hsu's past legal troubles.

As Adrian Williams, the Cranfield agricultural researcher, put it, the company has been "a little bit shocked" by the discovery that its original goal, to label everything, was naïve.

Clark, who had been raised a Southern Baptist, says that he was not shocked by the discovery — that, in some intuitive way, it made sense.

She said she was "frankly shocked" at the discovery and said she did not have any similar problems under his tutelage.

So it was no surprise to hear yesterday that the World Scrabble Championships in Poland had been shocked by the discovery of – that's right – a missing letter G.